Dears lets consider some child at your home on someone else who didn't have user account on ur system or on that particular OS accidentally turn on  the computer or boots into the OS where  he doesn't hold any account to login. Now how he  can safely reboot your machine without logging in. Here the Shutdown & Restart buttons provides the facility to safely shutdown or restart ur OS.

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